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The current refugee crisis has the potential to create an economic benefit for Europe. This article
include links to multiple studies:
Dr. Alessio J.G. Brown, Huffington Post, 10/7/15, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alessio-
brown/transforming-the-european_b_8245088.html

Refugees can provide a unifying effect on the countries that they become a part of. Ignoring the
plight of refugees would be moral disaster:
Arthur Helton, The Price of Indifference: Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century
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Successfully handling the global refugee crisis will require global solutions which can bond
individual countries together and strengthen international order:
Gil Loescher, Beyond Charity: International Cooperation and the Global Refugee Crisis
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The refugee crisis prompts rich, Western countries to engage with the Middle East, specifically
Syria which helps develop those countries:
Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 9/30/15
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/europe-refugee-crisis-syria-civil-war.html

The infusion of refugees into a country does not have an impact on the employment rates of
natives:
Yusuf Akgndz, Marcel Van den Berg, Wolter H.J. Hassink, IZA Discussion Paper, February 2015
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2564974

Europe has a moral obligation to help with refugees fleeing Syria:
Migration Policy Centre, January 2014 http://cadmus.eui.eu/handle/1814/29919

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Stories of economic downturn as a result of refugees are false. Countries can economically sustain
refugees and may even experience a boost:
Brookings Institution, 9/16/15 http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-
development/posts/2015/09/16-economic-impact-refugees-cali

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The current refugee crisis, and the way that the EU has attempted to invite refugees in, may cause
a flare in tensions in the Balkans:
Adam Lebor, Newsweek, 10/9/15 http://www.newsweek.com/2015/10/09/europe-refugee-crisis-
fans-old-balkan-tensions-377714.html

The refugee crisis has prompted security concerns within the countries most affected
Paul D. Shinkman, US News and World Report, 9/17/15:
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/17/security-concerns-surround-europes-refugee-
crisis

The international community may not be able to respond in the future and businesses are unlikely
to fill in the capitol needed to help which makes solving the refugee crisis impossible and trying
worthless:
Satchit Balsariemail, Josyann Abisaab, Kathleen Hamill, Jennifer Leaning, The Lancet, 3/3/15
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60168-4/fulltext?rss%3Dyes

The private sector is responding to humanitarian crises which may lessen the need for government
involvement:
ALNAP, Humanitarian Crises, Emergency Preparedness and Response: The Role of Business and the
Private Sector, Jordan Case Study, January 2014 http://www.alnap.org/resource/10097

Even if refugees represent an economic boost, Europe does not have the proper institutions to
handle more refugees:
Paul Mason, The Guardian, 9/4/15
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/04/this-refugee-crisis-is-too-big-for-
europe-to-handle-its-institutions-are-broken

Germany is evidence of logistical issues that hamper the lives of refugees
Amy Wang, The Atlantic, 10/4/15:
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/germany-refugee-migrant-
crisis/408877/